Lisa Skibenes

Native New Yorker Lisa Skibenes uses her affinity for sensuality and pleasure to create innovative tactical art and mouthwateringly tempting food.

Lisa moved to the Eastern Shore of Maryland in September 2013 and immediately immersed herself in the area's rich artistic community. Since then, she has studied watercolor with local artists, Heather Crow and Sandy Alenko, and mosaic art with both Sue Stockman and Jennifer Wagner Campbell.

Drawing from her collection of stones, rocks, beach glass, broken mirror (see recent move above), stained glass, china - obsessively collected over the years and thoughfully gifted by the generous local community - and inspirational quotes, Lisa dreamt of dwellings that other-worldly creatures would seek to inhabit. Her magical fairy houses are the result of hours and hour and hours of compulsively sorting and re-sorting stones and beach glass, handcutting china, mirror and stained glass into perfect pieces and believing that these pieces of everyday life can be transformed into something transcendental. Her fairy houses and mosaics have been displayed at the gallery Ouvert located in St. Michaels, MD.

Influenced by nature, all things mystical and whimsical, eroticism, curves, glitter, and assymetry, Lisa's mosaic work is a pathway to pleasure and meditation for herself and a passage to an enchanted landscape, lightness of spirit, and joyfulness for the viewer.